2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in California

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in California” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,337 people earned their degree in visual and performing arts, making the major the 217th most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 1,112 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in California” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in visual and performing arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality visual and performing arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in California” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for california master’s degree visual arts students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in California

#1

University of California - San Diego

La Jolla, California

#1 in overall quality

$28,631 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - San Diego landed the #1 spot on the list. La Jolla, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s visual arts degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

UCSD not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in California” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCSD are $28,631, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at University of California - San Diego

#2

California State University - Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

#2 in overall quality

$17,723 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Los Angeles. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in California list. Located in Los Angeles, California, this large public school awarded 19 degrees to qualified masters’s visual arts students in 2019-2020.

Cal State LA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in California” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Cal State LA are $17,723.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Cal State LA

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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